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- From: bpat@cs.mcgill.ca (Patrick BETREMIEUX)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Looking For 8x8 Font BitMap
- Message-ID: <BzEnv4.Ky5@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:23:27 GMT
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- In article <1gig8gINNcnt@falcon.natinst.com> glens@natinst.com (Glen Sescila) writes:
- > Is there anyway that I can get TOS to give me a pointer to its 8x8
- >character set? I could not find any such call in the GEMDOS or BIOS manuals
- >and I don't think that any of the text-output calls will work for my
- >application. Or if anybody has an 8x8 character set that they would like to
- >donate just e-mail it to me (although this will make my application 2K
- >bigger and I am already requiring a 2Meg machine, and I haven't added sound
- >yet :-/ ).
- >
- >Thanks.
-
- I see two ways of doing it :
-
- 1) Line-A (I can hear those cries of agony already :-)
- When you call init ($A000), it will return in A1 the address to a table
- containing the addresses of the system fonts.
- the first is the 6x6, next 8x8 and finaly 16x8
-
- 2) Tell me if I'm wrong, but won't vst_loadfont give you the address to the
- header ? If so, just call it with value 0 (System font), and size 7 (No,
- not 8, as it measures it from the character's baseline, not the whole
- height). At least, this one would be perfectly legal (GEM !!).
-
- Patrick.
-